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Nigerian govt to reveal names of 200 people who acquired Abuja properties with stolen public funds

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President Muhammadu Buhari-led government has hinted on its new move against fraudulent Nigerians who acquired properties with funds they made through corrupt means.

The government said it was going to soon publish names of about 200 individuals whose properties in Abuja are suspected to have been purchased with illegally-acquired funds.

Chairman, Special Presidential Investigative Panel for the Recovery of Property, Okoi Obono-Obla, made this disclosure on Thursday at the “Tackling corruption through improving transparency in property ownership” project, which was organised by ANEEJ in Abuja.

Obono-Obla, who launched ANEEJ’s new online platform ‘Properti Tracka’ during the occasion, tagged the platform as one of the single most important contributions towards the fight against corruption in Nigeria.

He said, “Anybody who has taken what doesn’t belong to him should return it back to Nigeria or else face being tracked down. Properti Tracka will expose those who have taken what belongs to the entire Nigerian populace.

“We will start by making available to the public the 200 names of those who own massive properties in Maitama, Abuja, most of whom are highly placed people in the country, some in the government, some in the past governments.”

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Obono-Obla, who is also the Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Prosecution, added that those who could not explain where they got the money to build such massive properties “should quietly return it back to the state.”

The Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed and the Federal Government currently have cases ongoing in courts instituted against them by a number of those whose names they published as looters in the lists released by government recently.

 

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